break apart
Example Sentences
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The car-sized rover carried two tubes of a chemical called TMAH, which can break apart organic matter to see what it is made out of.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
Over time, however, that same scraping action causes the sponge itself to break apart.
From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026
As the process continues, larger clusters of nucleoids often break apart into smaller groups that settle into neighboring pearls.
From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026
They continuously form and break apart, raising new questions about how often this happens and whether some regions of DNA are more active than others.
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
Then some unexplained turmoil within the earth’s mantle caused the land to break apart and drift off as vast asymmetrical chunks.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
